Re: Tw bobs worth on TOP, LDAP standards process and subschemasub entry attribute usage in rootDSE

[Mark Wahl <M.Wahl@INNOSOFT.COM>]

My message tried to state that there was nothing the _IETF_ did to 
enforce vendor behavior.  

In the IETF there is no contractual arrangement between an implementor
and a working group.  However, in large deployments there may be a 
contractual arrangement between an implementor and a deployer of 
that technology.  This contractual arrangement may reference Internet
standards-track RFCs as criteria for a correct implementation, and the
deployer may choose to use conformance or interoperability test results
as the basis for evaluating this criteria.  There are standard business
practices for an implementor and deployer to work out what to do if this
criteria is not met.  

Mark Wahl, Directory Product Architect
Innosoft International, Inc.